And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms
PoetryFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
Numbers
LawAnd I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Exodus
LawWhat is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts
HistoryWhile he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
Luke
GospelsAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
GospelsMy lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHowbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Matthew
GospelsI Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:
Daniel
Major ProphetsYe have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts
History / LukeThen the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.